(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israel’s government and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a four-day pause in fighting to allow the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave. Officials from Qatar, which has been mediating secret negotiations, as well […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Hamas official said Tuesday that a ceasefire agreement with Israel would be announced in the coming hours in Qatar. The official, who requested to remain anonymous, spoke with Xinhua. “We are close to reaching an agreement in the coming hours, and the movement has delivered its response to the mediators’’, it […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The first delivery of fuel arrived in Gaza Friday after Israel’s war cabinet bowed to diplomatic pressure to let diesel back into the war-torn Palestinian territory, where aid schemes are shut down amid critical shortages. As fighting between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers rages for six weeks, the United Nations has warned […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip grew worse on Tuesday as much of the focus remained on grim accounts about the state of the collapsed health system after almost six weeks of war between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers. UN Secretary General António Guterres said he was “deeply disturbed” by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – David Cameron, the former British Prime Minister, would be the country’s new foreign minister, the office of prime minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday. Cameron is also to be appointed to the British House of Lords, parliament’s upper chamber. His return to government is a big surprise. Cameron was prime minister from […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed cautious hope for a deal to secure to release of more hostages held by the Islamist group Hamas, who have been held for more than a month after the brutal October attack. “There could be (an agreement), but I think the less I say about […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israel has agreed to daily four-hour military pauses in northern Gaza for humanitarian purposes, the White House said Thursday, even as President Joe Biden said there was no chance of a full ceasefire. Biden has been pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for longer breaks in the fighting after more than a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Republicans in Congress aggressively ramped up an impeachment inquiry against US President Joe Biden on Wednesday by issuing subpoenas for testimony from his son Hunter and brother James. The attempt to compel the pair to testify came from the Oversight Committee in the House of Representatives, where the Republican majority has spent […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out a longer ceasefire in the Gaza Strip for the time being during an interview on U.S. television on Monday. “There’ll be no ceasefire, general ceasefire, in Gaza without the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu told the U.S. broadcaster ABC. “As far as tactical little pauses, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Protesters with hands covered in red paint repeatedly interrupted a congressional hearing on US military aid Tuesday, demanding Washington stop funding Israel’s fight against Hamas. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin were appealing to the Senate Appropriations Committee for billions of dollars in military assistance to support Israel, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tens of thousands of Moroccans marched Sunday through Casablanca in a show of solidarity with Palestinians, AFP correspondents said, more than three weeks into the deadly war between Israel and Hamas. “Stop the genocide in Gaza,” read one banner at the march, echoing claims by Palestinian officials and Arab leaders as the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israel said Saturday its war on Hamas had “entered a new phase” with its massive bombardment of Gaza as the Islamist group demanded the release of all Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the hostages it seized three weeks ago. The United Nations warned thousands more civilians could die in Gaza as Israel […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President Mike Pence announced Saturday that he is withdrawing from the US presidential race, saying, “this is not my time.” Speaking at the annual meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, Pence — the first major 2024 candidate to suspend his campaign, said: “It’s become clear to me: […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian literary icon, Chimamanda Adichie, says that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, emerged victorious in the 2023 Nigerian election. Adichie disclosed this in the inaugural lecture of the African World Lecture Series at Princeton University in the United States on Wednesday, October 25, 2023. Speaking to the audience, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York fined the former US president $10,000 on Wednesday for violating an order not to criticize court staff. Judge Arthur Engoron imposed the fine — Trump’s second — after determining that comments he made to reporters during a break in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – United Nations (UN) Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric has said that a new aid convoy entered Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah border crossing comprises 20 trucks according to the Egyptian Red Crescent. Dujarric disclosed this while briefing reporters at UN headquarters in New York on Monday. He said that was equivalent to just […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israeli strikes on Gaza overnight and early Monday have killed at least 70 people, Hamas officials said, as the military said it had struck some 320 targets in the Palestinian enclave in 24 hours. The Hamas-controlled government media office in the blockaded Gaza Strip said in a statement that “more than 60 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israel is to step up its punishing strikes in Gaza to increase pressure on Hamas, a military spokesman said Saturday as top officers warned troops to be ready to enter the besieged Palestinian territory. Since Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, which left 1,400 dead, Israel has launched devastating air and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gaza’s Hamas rulers released two Americans on Friday among some 200 hostages they abducted in brutal October 7 attacks in Israel and indicated that more could follow. Judith Tai Raanan and her daughter Natalie Shoshana Raanan were back in Israel late Friday, the Israeli government said. No details were given on their […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Canada said Thursday it had withdrawn 41 diplomats from India — fallout from a bitter row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. New Delhi planned to revoke diplomatic immunity for all but 21 of Canada’s diplomats and their families by Friday, forcing Ottawa to pull out the others, […]
